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The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lopes, Paulo - 2021

Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable income distribution statistics, but should also take into account social conditions. Recent, widely disseminated claims that poverty and inequality have increased over the past...

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Loss-of-Learning and the Post-COVID Recovery in Low-Income Countries

Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022

-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and …

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Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022

This paper examines empirically the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. We … assemble a comprehensive and novel cross-country database at a daily frequency on vaccinations and various health outcomes (new …’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

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Recent Dynamics of Crude Oil Prices

Krichene, Noureddine - 2007

Crude oil prices have been on a run-up spree in recent years. Their dynamics were characterized by high volatility, high intensity jumps, and strong upward drift, indicating that oil markets were constantly out-of-equilibrium. An explanation of the oil price process in terms of the underlying...

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Being Poor, Feeling Poorer : Inequality, Poverty and Poverty Perceptions in the Western Balkans

Koczan, Zsoka - 2016

Emerging Europe has undergone a major economic transformation over the past 25 years. Most countries experienced initial drops in output during transition, followed by recovery in the second half of the 1990s. The path of transition in the Western Balkans has however been particularly uneven....

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Explaining Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Bolivia

Vargas, Jose - 2016

We investigate the factors driving Bolivia's success in reducing inequality and poverty during the last 15 years. Our evidence suggests that the reduction was driven mainly by labor income growth at the bottom end of the income distribution. Increases in non-labor income (rents, transfers,...

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Inclusive Growth Framework

Kireev, Aleksej P. - 2017

The paper suggests an operationally usable framework for the evaluation of growthinclusiveness-the inclusive growth framework (IGF). Based on the data on growth, poverty,and inequality, the framework allows for the quantitative assessment of growth inclusiveness.The assessment relies on the...

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Macro-Fiscal Implications of Climate Change : The Case of Djibouti

Kireyev, Alexei - 2018

This paper reviews the significant macro-fiscal challenges posed by climate change inDjibouti and the costs of mitigation and adaptation policies. The paper concludes thatDjibouti is susceptible to climate change and related costs are potentially large. Investingnow in adaptation and mitigation...

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Small Island States in the Pacific : The Tyranny of Distance

Becker, Chris - 2012

This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a limited number of indicators which are macro-orientated - population, fertility of land, ability to tap into economies of scale, income, and geographic isolation. It leaves aside...

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The Quality of the Recent High-Growth Episode in Sub-Saharan Africa

Martinez, Marcelo - 2013

episodes? (ii) has this growth had an impact on socially desirable outcomes, for example, improvements in health, education and …

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